The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1887-04-08
NEWS AND OTHER NOTINGS.


Memphis on Sunday by eating ice cream
Tne doctors think the patients VIII recover.
Nicholas Irwin, of HeIfenstein, North
umberlapd county, was found dead on the
road near that place on Monday night. ana
foul play is suspected.
Mis- Della Condron. OF HniItdavsburp.
has for merit, been promoted to a 81 200
cleIFship in rhe Pension Department. at
Washinlton, d Z.
-WHkesharre raised 5000 Sunday night
to aid the Irish ant'-corrcion fund, and will
hold great meeting Monday evening to
protest against coercion.
Policeman Michael Brien was shot
ard fatally wounded on Sunday night, at
Chicago. bv a tough named Timothy Grady,
whom be was trying to arrest. Grady is
under arrest.
Tie extensive slaughter house, stable
and ice house of Hrury Kr-eIing. on Charles
street Allegheny. was destroyed by fire on
Wednesday morning. Loss. SIS 900; insu-
rance, $40 600.
The latest figures on the election iu
Michigan place the Republican plurality on
the State ticket at about s 600, while en- the
prOhibitory amendment the opposition ma
jority will be about 500
Pink eve has appeared in Reading
and is spreading rapidly. Thirty horses of tie
CITY Passenger Railway Company, together
with a large number of horses owned by pri-
vate parties, are affected with it,
w. u. Rogers, James Swaney, j. r.
Callahan, } Ohm Ready John Britt and H. c.
BauChman were terribly burned by an ex-
plOsiUn of molten metal in The Edgar Thom-
son Steel Works, at Braddock's. Monday.
Rev. krnna, former curate Of St
Thomas Catholic Church at Rraddock, now
OF St Andrews Church, Allegheny, was Oh
Monday night presented with a purse con-
tanning $500 fine gold watch, chain, cross
and locket by the members of st. Thomas
congregation.
Thomas McDevitt, a Philadelphia man
was cut about the face and neck with a PEI.
knife, during a fight in that city on lat
Sunday morning. He was taken to tie
Pennsylvania Hospital. where his injUries
were pronounced not serious. He declined
to reveal the name of his assailant.
News JUS received from YorkviIe s. c.
announces the lynching of five negroes there
at 1 O'Clock Tuesday morning The men
murdered boy last December who informed
on them about stealing from the fields.
They were brought to Columbia some time
ago for safety, and went to Yorkville yester
day for trial
"A wire-rOpe company at Willamsport
has orders on hand tEat will keep it busy
for year to come. The cables for the
street railways IN Philadelphia and other
cities are to be turned out at Williamsport.
a nd the leading stockholders in the cable
roads have become Interested in the business
of making wire ropes
"A large quantity Of dynamite stored in
frame shanty on the outskirts of Reading
exploded on Monday forenoon. Andrew l..
Wite had both legs blown of and will die
Two Italians, names not known, were badly
injured, one having his body torn open.
Samuel Wertz was also badly hurt. The
cause of the explosion is unknown.
Mr. S. F. Picking, of Somerset, has been
rendered and accepted a position in the
United States Light House Service. This
service is under the control of Board of
Naval officers, of which Commander Il. F.
Pickirc. his brother is Secretary. Mr. Pick
- left Somerset last Monday for Chico 60
where he for the present will be stationed
d. HARRISON, a resident of Karns City,
has for some time past been suffering from
neuralgia, and on last Monday night the
pain was so intense that he became violently
insane. and attempted to cut his throat with
razor. He fought desperately with his
70 TIxy h. >
and thus far searching parties have failed to
find him
On Monday night Charles limerick, an
attorney and owner CT an Opera House in
Paris, Indiana, made some remarks reflect
ing on the character of the wife of Deputy
City Marshal Miller, Miller met Limerick
on Tuesday and knocked him down, then as
he lay on the sidewalk he kicked bin vio-
lently, breaking his neck, and he died at
once. Miller was held to ball.
Guernsey Baker, a farmer residing about
four miles from Harmonsburg. Crawford
/ County, was instantly killed last Saturday
afternoon while engaged in telling timber.
8 tree, in falling, caught him, and his up
| lifted ak was buried to the hold in his brain.
Baker was veteran of the late war, was
forty seven years of age, and leaves a wife
and FIVE children in destitute circumstances.
One of the walls of a fOur-stOry brick
building at the corner of Bunker and Hal
sted streets Chicago, fell in on Monday
morning, almost wrecking the structure.
The building had not been enclosed and the
disaster was caused by the very strong wind
which was blowing. Some of the masonry
fell outward and almost wreck d a frame
store adjoining. No one vas se riousIy in
iured.
Fifteen years ago Charles 'rthlaume,
of Terrebonne, Canada, left his young wife
and went to California to make his fortune
At the end of a year Mrs. Berthaume heard
that her husband was dead, and when a
! year OF two later, a neighbor asked herhand
in marriage, she said Yes. The other
day Berthlaume appeared alive and well
and claimed his wife, and the village priest
has decided that she must live with him.
"A disastrous ending to an 'April fooI'
/ joke came on Sunday when the arm of Will
/ lam Hoffman was amputatsd at his nome in
! Pittsburg. Hoffman works at Sutton's
buckle works on Ridge avenue. On Friday
afternoon he called the attention of fellow
workman to some defect in the machinery,
which did not exist, and In pointing it out
caught his arm in belt, and it was terribly
mangled before the machine could be stop
ped.